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Welcome to the last morning window of the Calendar! Be sure to come back in the evening as there is still one window to be opened. I hope you have enjoyed the Calendar - if so, please leave a comment to the artists involved using their window! You can access all the windows by clicking the image on the sidebar - it shows all the posts connected to the Creative Christmas Calendar. I want to thank you all for following this Calendar and shall wish you a very Creative, Happy New Year!

Hello! My name is Riikka Kovasin, I'm the owner of this blog. I live in Finland with my husband and two daughters. They are a constant source of inspiration and the reason I started scrapbooking in the first place autumn 2009.I am a mixed media and scrapbooking artist who loves to combine different products and techniques to a layout. Besides layouts, I love to create mini albums and cards as well. I currently design for Scrap365, CSI and Sketchbook365. You can also find my work in the future from Creating Keepsakes, entreARTistes, PaperHause and Inzpira.

"Now that the presents are exchanged there are many stories to be told. Of course there's the Holiday stories, but the stories of the presents also. Or rather the beginnings of stories.

I was blown away by this minialbum by Maikko. She documented her home and herself via different inherited objects found in her home. So when my mom moved this autumn and we got some items to take home, I took a photo of them before tucking them into cupboards. For this mini I then asked the stories the items had from my mom and also remembered if they ment something special to me.

The mini is done in accordion fold and each piece is connected to the other with washi tape. There's also some extra details like a vellum pocket and little "memory file" inside the album. Each spread hold at least one photo and the story of the item. I used inks, mists and paint to give the wonderful papers by ColorConspiracy's "Daily Kate" a personal touch.

Do you have a special vase only to be used in certain occasions? Or do you use the same coffee mug every day? What kind of stories do your things have?"